The top dog at one of the most successful literary agencies in New York says he’s in hot pursuit of self-published books to represent to mainstream publishers. “Absolutely, yes!” That was Jim Levine’s unequivocal answer when I asked him recently if he was accepting self-published … [Read more...]
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The last laugh: If self-published authors owned the midlist
Mega publishers like Simon and Schuster and Random House could someday cede the midlist to a vast army of self-published authors. In that scenario, they'd focus instead just on blockbuster books by brand-name authors and celebrities. All the rest -- the literary fiction, the cookbooks, the … [Read more...]
How self publishing can lead to a real book deal
A successfully self-published book can propel you down the road to a book contract at a commercial publishing house. That's the truth of the matter, despite the worries I hear from writers that self-publishing could doom their hopes of ever landing a real book deal. Don't listen to those … [Read more...]
The unvarnished truth about self-publishing
"It's a contact sport." That's how one author summed up his experience in a refreshingly frank and illuminating first-person account of what it's really like to publish your own novel. A minefield with roads forked in every direction David Carnoy started out with a literary agent and high hopes … [Read more...]